and
into classes; and I think it my duty ingenuously to declare, that
the opinions I have expressed of the effects of such public
doctrines as I have described, be they preached or published by
whom they may, were written without communication with any one
living. I think it right to declare this, most explicitly, lest the
distinguished person to whom this poem is inscribed, might be
supposed to have any participation in such sentiments; though, I
trust, no possible objection could be made to the manly avowal of
my opinion of the injurious effects of Antinomian, or shades of
Antinomian doctrines.

Further, the object of my remarks is _not_ piety, but ostentatious
publicity and affectation,--far more disgusting in the assumed garb
of female piety than under any shape; and often attended by
_acting_ far more disgusting than any acting on any stage.

BANWELL CAVE.

The following extract of a letter from Mr Warner will enable the
reader to form his own opinion concerning the vast accumulation of
bones in this cave:--

"The sagacity of Mr Beard having detected the existence of the
cavern, and his perseverance effected a precipitous descent into
it, the objects offered to his notice were of the most astonishing
and paradoxical description--'an antre vast,' rude from the hand of
nature, of various elevations, and branching into several recesses;
its floor overspread with a huge mingled mass of bones and mud,
black earth (or decomposed animal matter), and sand from the Severn
sea, which flows about six miles to the northward of Banwell
village. The quantity of bones, and the mode by which they could be
conveyed to, and deposited in, the place they occupied, were points
of equal difficulty to be explained: as the former amounted to
several waggon loads; and as no access to the cavern appeared to
exist, except a fissure from above, utterly incapable, from its
narrow dimensions, of admitting the falling in of any animal larger
than a common sheep; whereas it was evident that huge quadrupeds,
such as unknown beasts of the ox tribe, bears, wolves, and probably
hyenas and tigers, had perished in the cave. But, though the
questions _how_ and _when_ were unanswerable, _this_ conclusion was
irresistibly forced upon the mind, by the phenomena submitt